🎙️ EP 358: Alibaba Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash & Google DeepMind Introduces Dream-RSI Framework

AI Fire Daily · Sep 18, 2026 · 16m · transcript

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Alibaba Cloud launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native multimodal model featuring a 1M-token context window, 113-language audio support, and a 98% reduction in audio input costs compared to prior generations. Meanwhile, Google DeepMind researchers unveiled Dream-RSI, an orchestration framework that boosts AI agent search efficiency up to 162× by simulating trajectories over past exploration history without fine-tuning underlying weights.

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